Colin Grant was raised in a ski racing family. His father was Chairman of the Ski Federation of Great Britain, the Scottish Ski Council and the Cairngorm Ski Club (the original CSC!). He was also a board member of the local ski hill where Colin was coached from a young age by former Olympic and Scottish and British Ski Champions. He went on to race internationally for Scotland and Great Britain and was ranked in the top three in the UK at a time when British skiers were making an impact internationally. When mocked by Canadians about Eddie The Eagle, as politely as possible, Colin points out that the leading Brit finished 8th in the Calgary Olympic downhill, 6 places ahead of the best Canadian. Colin's own dream of racing at the Calgary Olympics disappeared with a knee injury the year before the games and he turned his attention to passing on the Olympic dream to a group of young racers he coached on his native Scottish mountain. From that group of eight athletes, came eight Olympic snow sports appearances from Nagano to Vancouver, an Olympic Bronze medal a word cup finals 4th place and several world cup top ten finishes in Alpine slalom and word cup gold and sliver medals in snowboarding. Colin splits his snow time between skinny waisted alpine slalom skis and very fat powder skis fitted with telemark bindings. When not on snow, Colin is an entrepreneur and consultant, running companies in the cleantech/greentech space and consulting on strategy and performance to cities and businesses.